Rai News

Rai News (formerly known as RaiNews 24) is an Italian 24-hour all-news State-owned television channel, broadcast on digital terrestrial television in Italy and via satellite around Europe and North America.

History

This public all-news channel was created on April 26, 1999 thanks to a Service Contract between the Italian public television network RAI and the Italian Minister of Communications.

The new channel experiments with an innovative model that combines television, internet and digital technologies. The choice of a multi-screen format, widespread use of video conference connections with correspondents and experts, was significant. The research of the separation from narration of the news and opinions about them is one of the strongest points of this channel. Often, videos are broadcast without commentary, and only some subtitles; so as to not bias the viewer.

In the last two months of 2005 the channel has realized various scoops about the Iraq war, knowing about the use of particular arms like white phosphorus or napalm from the American armed forces and the behaviour in war of some Italian soldiers in Nassiriya. From November 2006, when the Italian journalist Corradino Mineo became chief of the television, the channel use a new graphic, similar to BBC World News, changing is old graphic similar to Bloomberg Television. Monday, December 12, 2011 will be renewed graphics after the rapid increase of audience. Today the channel is seen in 24 hours from 5.9% of people in the news at 8 pm is followed by 1 milion of people

Availability

To receive the contents of this news channel 24 hours a day with news bulletins of 15 minutes every half-hour and others 15 minutes of journalistic close examinations about actuality or general news, from the other the weather or economy, it needs the satellite (reception from Hotbird 13° East) or DVB-T receiver (reception only in Italy); Rai News is available also via internet streaming, on IPTV (only in Italy) and on Rai Tre from 2 am to 7 am. The streaming internet service uses the proprietary format WMV. To reduce the number of bits needed to the coding of the signal, the screen was divided in some windows and te moving signal occupies less than half total pixels, while the other parts of the screen contained what time is in that moment, the titles of the main news, the internet sites where you can deepen the various news and the logo of the program on air in that moment.

Directors of Rai News

• Roberto Morrione (from 1999 to 2006)
• Corradino Mineo (from 2006)

Programmes

• Notiziario (every half-hour, broadcasted also on Rai Italia)
• Meteonews24 (weather bulletin, every half-hour)
• Notizie dal CCISS viaggiare informati (traffic alert bulletin, every half-hour)
• Dentro la notizia
• repliche TG Regione (Reruns of TGR)
• repliche TG (Reruns of TG3)
• Decoder. Le immagini che fanno notizia (Images with subtitles in Italian from APTN, Reuters and its affiliates. Similar to No Comment on EuroNews)
• Orso o Toro come va l'economiaheading on the economy.
• Rassegna stampapress review of national and international newspapers, in the second part of the review are made to see the local newspapers.
• Il caffè delle 20Heading Policy

Journalists

• Maurizio Torrealta
• Claudia Origlia
• Sigfrido Ranucci
• Piero Di Pasquale
• Ivana Suhadolc
• Giovanna Tatò
• Marco Silenzi
• Roberto Amen
• Novella Calligaris
• Marco Dedola

Logos

References

Websites

• Official Website (Italian), mobile version
• Rai News on YouTube
• Rai News on Twitter
• Rai News on Facebook
• Rai News on Netvibes